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Preface | |
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Introduction: The Politics of Education and the Politics of Knowledge | |
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Educational Governance and Competing Voices | |
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What Do People Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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From the Local to the Global in School Governance | |
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Civil Society and Schooling | |
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Politicians and Educational Ideologies | |
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The Education Business: Making Money and Influencing Schools | |
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Politics of School Finance and the Economics of Education | |
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Global Education Politics and the United States | |
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Human Capital: Dominant Global Education Ideology | |
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The Human Capital Education Paradigm | |
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Conclusion: Questions | |
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What Do People Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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What Do Politicians Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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What Does the Media Talk About When It Talks About Schools? | |
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What Do Parents Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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What Do the World's Richest Man and Foundation Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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What Do Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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What Do School Administrators Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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What Do Black and Latino Educators Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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What Do Students Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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Conclusion: So What Do People Talk About When They Talk About Schools? | |
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From the Local to the Global in School Governance | |
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Forms of Representation | |
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State Governance | |
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Federal Government | |
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Federal Influence and the Race to the Top | |
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Local Control: School Boards | |
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Local Control: Mayoral Governance | |
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Patterns in Local Politics of Education | |
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Dominated Communities | |
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Factional Communities | |
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Pluralistic Communities | |
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Inert Communities | |
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Summary: Educational Governance in the United States | |
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Global Influences | |
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Civil Society | |
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Conclusion-.School Governance and Ideology | |
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Civil Society and Schooling | |
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Power, Money, and Civil Society | |
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Types of Associations | |
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Special Interest Groups | |
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Foundations and Think Tanks: America's Shadow Government | |
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Foundations as Shadow Educational Policy-Makers | |
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Think Tanks as Shadow Educational Policy-Makers | |
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Professional Organizations | |
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Teachers Unions | |
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Conclusion: A Thousand Points of Light | |
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Politicians and Educational Ideologies | |
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Cultural Conservatism and American Exceptionalism | |
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Liberal Cultural Values and Multiculturalism | |
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Cultural Conservatives, Moral Instruction, and Evolution | |
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Cultural Liberals and Moral Values | |
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Free Markets and School Choice | |
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Liberals and Regulated Markets | |
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Cultural Conservatives: Poverty is a Matter of Character in a Free Market | |
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Cultural Liberals: Poverty and Equal Educational Opportunity | |
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Conclusion: Human Capital and Alternative Ideologies | |
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The Education Business: Making Money and Influencing Schools | |
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The Publishing Industry, Texas, and Open-Source Texts | |
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Texas' Politics and Textbook Publishing | |
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The Politics of Open-Source Textbooks | |
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For-Profit and Franchised Educational Services | |
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Educational Management Organizations: Charter Schools | |
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Supplementary Education Services: The Shadow Education System | |
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Franchising the Shadow Education System | |
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Multinational Testing Corporations | |
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Conclusion: Ideology and the Education Business | |
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Politics of School Finance and the Economics of Education | |
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Does Money Matter? | |
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Economic Self-Interest and School Finance | |
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The Politics of Unequal Funding and School Finance | |
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Judicial Involvement in School Finance: Equity | |
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Judicial Involvement in School Finance: Adequacy | |
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Federal, State, and Local Spending on Education | |
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Financial Crisis: How Should Educational Monies Be Distributed? | |
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Educational Administrators | |
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Teachers | |
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Framework for Understanding the Politics of School Finance | |
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Who Should Pay? | |
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How Should Educational Monies Be Distributed? | |
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How Should Money for Education Be Collected? | |
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How Much Money Should Be Spent on Education? | |
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School Finance in a Global Context | |
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The Economics of Schooling in the Global Labor Market | |
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Conclusion | |
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Global Education Politics and the United States | |
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Benchmarking Global Standards and Tests | |
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Global Academic Olympics: OECD and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) | |
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The World Bank: Human Capital in Developing Nations | |
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United Nations and the World Bank: Global Networks | |
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Millennium Goals, Global Networks, and Human Capital Education | |
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Brain Gain and Brain Drain: Human Capital and Multiculturalism | |
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The Global Education Business | |
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Conclusion: The Global Cloud | |
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Political Control of Education in a Democratic Society: Proposal for Amendment to U.S. Constitution | |
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The Problem of Majority Rule | |
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The Power of Special Interest Groups | |
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The Political Use of Schools | |
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Education Amendment to U.S. Constitution | |
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Conclusion: Globalization and National Systems of Education | |
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Index | |